While they were talking, Marika had already put Elizabeth on the griffin’s saddle, and she stood on the stirrup on the side of the saddle. She patted Xiaobai’s neck and said, “We are ready.”

Xiaobai flew into the sky and reached the top of the tower in an instant.

On the top of the tower, Wang Zheng was keeping a distance from the entrance, and Nini was standing next to him.

Elizabeth: “What’s wrong?”

Wang: “Nothing. We are waiting for the wanderer to come up just to be on the safe side. After all, we don’t know what traps this gate has.”

Franka said as she emitted a pink light, “Maybe this is just a decoration. Actually, this tower can only be entered and exited using a teleportation array!”

“Don’t be like that,” Wang smiled bitterly, “then we would have come here for nothing.”

Marika landed on the ground and tiptoed towards the entrance, stopping half a meter away from the entrance. “You’re right to stop. There’s a trap here. But it’s just a simple mechanical trap. The clips hidden in the patterns on the ground will catch the feet of careless people. It’s also very easy to remove.”

As she spoke she tossed a coin into the trap, and the clamp popped out from the grooves in the floor and snapped shut over the coin.

Marica: “I’d say the owner of this tower probably doesn’t think many people can get through the defenses of the Aboleths and the traps.”

Wang added: “He might still be very confident in the maze he set up. That fake door did waste more than an hour of our time.”

Marika didn’t answer and continued to check the ground near the door, and finally checked the door.

“Guess what,” she said, “this door has no traps at all, just one line of Undercommon: ‘Unexpectedly, this is just a simple door.'”

Wang: “Ha, ha, ha, how humorous.”

Marykalla opened the door, revealing a ladder leading down, but she ignored it and jumped down, landing on the ground on the next level.

“There are no traps, you can come down.”

So Wang Ye jumped down, and Xiaobai, who had turned back into human form, followed closely behind him.

When Xiaobai landed, she stumbled and bumped into Wang’s legs. Wang simply grabbed her by the back of her collar and put her in front.

Xiaobai: “Is this the cave where some wild man lives?”

Wang looked at the ferns and mushrooms that filled the entire space. “I think this is the greenhouse of the great wizard. The mushrooms and plants grown here are common ingredients for making magic potions. For example, this firefly mushroom is often used to make enlargement potions.”

Magic potions are equivalent to corresponding scrolls, but most potions need to be drunk to work, so magic such as fireball cannot usually be made into potions.

Compared to spell scrolls, potions can replace fewer types of spells, but scrolls require experience in the use of magical devices before they can be torn, while potions can be drunk by anyone and are effective after drinking them.

Elizabeth cannot tear the scroll because she has not learned how to use magic devices, but she can drink potions, and after drinking the enlargement potion, her size will increase.

Some wizards make quite a few potions to conserve their spell slots.

For example, if you have a potion of advanced invisibility, you don’t need to bring an advanced invisibility potion for the fourth-ring spell slot. Drinking the potion is more convenient than casting the spell yourself, and it can free up the spell slot for other things.

While Wang was explaining all this to Xiaobai, Elizabeth slowly climbed down the stairs.

After she made way for the stairs, Nini came down in a flash.

Marika finished checking the stairs leading to the lower level. “No traps. Let’s continue down. There are too many mosquitoes here.”

Xiaobai: “Yeah, but I’m a druid. I’ve told the bugs not to bite us.”

“Thank you, I wish you could always be so convenient.” Wang said.

The view on the next floor is completely different from the greenhouse.

The plants in the greenhouse seemed to be blocked by an invisible barrier and none of them crossed the dividing line between the two layers.

Everything on this floor is clean and bright, without even a speck of dust.

As if to explain the lack of dust, a broom was sweeping the floor, and a feather duster nearby was cleaning the bookshelf.

Elizabeth: “The mechanisms are out of power, but the broom and feather duster are still moving?”

Wang: “You are right. Theoretically, this shouldn’t happen.”

Marika picked up an apple on the desk and said, “This apple is half eaten, and the exposed flesh has not changed color at all. It must have been just eaten.”

Nini: “Have we returned to the time when the master just left?”

Wang raised his hand and released a detection magic, then shook his head and said, “No, this room is attached with time-locking magic, similar to the dimension bag. When the observer with subjective will leaves, the time in the space stops. The owner of this room is very good at manipulating time.”

Nini keenly thought of a possibility: “Planeswalker?”

Wang: “No, planeswalkers are not necessarily good at manipulating time. They are just independent of the timelines of all worlds. Of course, naturally formed planeswalkers are also good at time magic because they have a very deep understanding of the nature of the world.

“And a magician who is good at time magic does not necessarily understand the nature of the world. These are two different things. According to the magic fish, the magician left here because his lifespan was about to run out, which means he has not yet embraced eternity.”

Franca spurted green with curiosity: “You can control time, but you can’t embrace eternity? Wait, what does it mean to embrace eternity?”

Franka is new to the team and has not yet heard Wang’s popular science knowledge.

Wang gave a brief and concise explanation.

Franka spun up into the sky: “I see, then this wizard is so pitiful.”

Wang: “It’s common to be stuck at the last minute. Don’t just stand there, take a look at what good things this lab has. Since he’s a great wizard who’s good at time spells, maybe he’ll have something good like a time-stop scroll.”

Chapter 309 Pythagorean Theorem

Just as Xiaobai was about to start looking, he suddenly turned around and looked at Wang: “Aren’t you going to look for it?”

The king took out the staff that he had just hastily taken out from the secret compartment of the Mind Flayer’s study and said, “I want to identify this staff. If it is a powerful staff, it will be very helpful for us to deal with the Mind Flayer tomorrow.”

Xiaobai: “What if you find out that the function of this staff is to turn people’s heads into the flavor that the mind flayer likes?”

Wang: “Mind flayers have no sense of taste. Some mind flayers enjoy drinking, but they mainly experience the paralyzing effect of alcohol.”

Franka: “Should I laugh out loud at this moment?”

Furu has no vocal organs, so theoretically she cannot laugh, but she can use telepathy to let everyone “hear” onomatopoeia.

Xiao Bai shook her big head: “The Mind Flayer is really boring.”

Franka: “I don’t have a sense of taste either.”

Xiaobai: “So your life – your jellyfish life – is also very boring.”

Franka spiraled: “That’s too much!”

Nini found a canvas, picked up a pencil and started painting on it, and the pattern on the fake door was perfectly replicated.

Wang: “I successfully surveyed the Shenwei Ruyue twice before, so it shouldn’t be a problem.”

Finally, the king raised his head: “This staff can provide a shared mental barrier once a day… No wonder the mind flayers carefully kept this thing. This thing is basically a special attack against the mind flayers.”

“…Congratulations?” Elizabeth said uncertainly.

Wang: “It’s probably because he has betrayed the mind flayers as a desecrator, and he’s afraid that he’ll be found by the Mastermind and then pulled back into the mind flayers’ mental network. With this thing, he can buy at least half an hour to escape.”

Ten minutes passed quickly, and everyone in the rescue team except Marika involuntarily stopped searching the laboratory, while the drow elves were concentrating on checking the walls, trying to find the secret compartment.

He quickly flipped through the book which was filled with words he didn’t understand and then burst into laughter.

Wang: “No. There is another good news. With the shared mind barrier, we are no longer afraid of God’s Might! No more situations where I have to be a lone hero just because someone has God’s Might.”

Wang: “Yes, the effect of this staff can last for half an hour after it is cast. During this half hour, the mind flayer’s psychic ability is basically ineffective against us. Unless he uses a spell like Mage Disintegration to remove all the magic on us, its greatest advantage will be ineffective against us.”

Elizabeth: “I’d rather have a magic box that turns dry food into cookies.”

Elizabeth gathered a pile of magic books and diaries together and piled them on the desk in front of the king, waiting for him to read them later.

Xiao Bai frowned: “Why would the Mind Flayer keep something that has special attacks on itself next to itself?”

“It’s the code table!” Wang announced loudly, “If I guess correctly, the symbol on the door is the key to cracking this code, or the secret key. The owner of this tower knows how to play tricks.”

Elizabeth: “But cookies are sweet…”

“This… I don’t understand it either.” Wang frowned, “But I can recognize that the symbols here are the same as the symbols on the fake door! If I’m not mistaken…”

“Look for the documents and diaries in the room!” Wang Gang said, and then he saw a pile of books, diaries and documents on the table in front of him.

He opened a magic book, “Luckily, it’s written in the common language, so everyone can understand it. Let’s look for it together!”

Another ten minutes passed and Xiaobai was lying on the ground bored, scratching his belly from time to time.

Franka wanted to help, but suddenly found that her tentacles could not turn the pages of the book – Furu’s tentacles did not have suction cups, and it was okay to use the pointed ends to play the piano, but it was a bit difficult to turn the pages of a book.

“With this, we don’t have to worry about it for at least the first half hour. The remaining question is whether we can eliminate it within half an hour.”

“That’s also starch… Where are you going, Smart?”

Nini: “I remember it. Now I can draw it for you.”

Wang was studying the staff. He looked up when he heard this: “Ah? What?”

Everyone immediately joined in the search.

Nini: “The premise is that you, teacher, don’t get hit by the Divine Power, and then use the staff to put a mental barrier on us.”

Wang turned the book to the beginning. “If I’m not mistaken, the first part of this diary combined with the secret key can give us clues to the following part. The first part may be the Pythagorean theorem, or some other well-known law. Combined with the code table, we can get a paradigm for interpretation…”

Marika frowned, “Shared mental barrier? The one with the Nine Rings?”

Elizabeth patted Xiaobai’s head gently and said, “Let him identify the staff carefully.”

Xiao Bai was shocked: “The last person we met who was good at playing was Elzam. Why do I have a bad feeling? This time, I won’t go through so much trouble to open the secret room, and end up with a spoon that can turn water into soup, right?”

Elizabeth: What’s wrong with you?

Wang immediately raised his head, threw down the magic book in his hand, and took the one that Xiaobai couldn’t understand from her.

Elizabeth: “What is the Pythagorean theorem?”

Nini found a jewelry box, but there was no lock on it and the jewelry inside looked ordinary.

Xiaobai: “Here is a book I can’t understand!”

Everyone looked over and saw Marika pressing down a brick on the wall. The next moment, six bricks on the empty wall turned over, each with a symbol painted on it.

Marika squinted at the six symbols and exclaimed, “It’s really a traditional puzzle. If nothing unexpected happens, pressing the six symbols in a specific order should open the hidden door.”

Xiaobai: “Leave it to me! I’ll go up and beat it to death. The Mind Flayer shouldn’t have any physical resistance, right?”

“Yes, yes.” Xiaobai held the back of his head with both hands and pouted his lips, saying in a self-deprecating manner.

As soon as she finished speaking, Marika shouted, “There’s a mechanism here!”

“There is more than one level. The biggest threat to us from the Mind Flayer is his psychic ability, and the closer we are to him, the stronger this ability becomes. All of us will inevitably sympathize with him and gradually become his puppets. The longer we stay around him, the better the effect.

Wang: “Of course, go back to the front door and look at the password sheet. I forgot to write it down just now.”